WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off July 3rd, 2023 (Ep. 703) 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:09.760 Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is Leading 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:12.080 Off Live, brought to you by Prize Pick. Sign up 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:15.000 for Prize Pick today with the promo code leading off, 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:18.520 It's me Joey p Joe Pizzavia with a mustache that 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.720 of course is the Welsh. Also with a mustache which 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.360 is looking really good. I think your wife is one 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:27.320 hundred percent wrong. This is a fantastic look for you. 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.600 Mine still coming in a little bit. I think it's 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.239 a little light. But we did not coordinate this. We 0:00:32.320 --> 0:00:34.640 both left the soul patch. We showed up today for 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:38.559 the show Mustaches and soul Patches. We promised you if 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.720 we came here on Monday, we had fourteen thousand subs 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:42.360 on the YouTube channel that we would be doing the 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:46.360 show with mustaches. Real mustache is authentic, not that stuff 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:49.040 you buy at the store. And Welsh. We are men 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:50.879 of our word, that's right. 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:53.479 And I've also got my kind of like U is 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.000 it Rick or Tom Sellick tom Selick shirt on. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.560 You know, like very magnum pi, magnum p. 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.000 I that's exactly what I got going on. You got 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:05.319 kind of a white mustache there, Joe. I don't think 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:07.680 I noticed that. I don't think I know you got 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.440 you got kind of the raid out mustache. But yeah, 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.640 my wife was horrible a little bit when she saw this. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:18.919 I will tell you guys were like, uh, it's centimeter 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:22.560 over hair wise of getting a full handlebar mustache, but 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.680 it grew out all like Joe Dirt, all weird and white, trashy, 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:26.920 and I was just like, Nope, we're not going to 0:01:27.000 --> 0:01:29.720 do that. But yes, this is the full one I 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.880 looked like I have. There's a bunch of different stories. 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.960 You guys can probably tell me what I'm looking like here, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:34.520 but thank you. 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.680 I think with the hair, the shirt, let's go look 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.760 like the guy you can count on to always be 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.959 at the wheel fortune slot machine in a small town 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:44.920 casino attached to a cracker barrel. I don't know if 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.240 it gets better than that one monkey's on it. Yeah, 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:54.160 I would say, like the villain in a Three Stooges short. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.920 You know, he said, Welsh looks like his own evil twin. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.480 Here's the funny things. So we decided also to do 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:03.440 some prop humor. We'll get to baseball in a second, 0:02:03.440 --> 0:02:06.360 but obviously this is why we're all here today. When 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.960 I put on sunglasses, I almost look like pit bullish. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:14.399 I feel like, yeah, I keep actually popping your head 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.440 with the blue steels squadro. 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:20.959 How many homeowners they show today who know those three squadro? 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:23.680 And but if I put the hat on too, I 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:26.160 look like a defensive coordinator from nineteen eighty seven. 0:02:26.320 --> 0:02:27.960 And now you get to chew your lip. You got 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:30.040 chew your lip yep, to your lip a little bit 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:34.560 if you had a toothpick ye out there, Come on. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.360 Tackle that guy? What are you doing? Yeah, it definitely 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.200 that now Welsh when he puts on sunglasses or glasses at. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.600 All, I didn't have sunglasses. 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.960 We just have regular glasses, which is amazing because when 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.360 Welsh puts on glasses with the mustache, he just looks 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:48.800 like a guy who does fantasy baseball for a limpic, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:53.240 like I'm pretty sure, like hipster ip a drinking you know. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.680 Let me tell you about the the X plug kind 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:56.000 of guy. 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.440 I mean, well, everybody else, let me tell you about 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.200 the X plug. I've got jokes today for everybody. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:05.920 Bears. Hey Kowalski, what are you doing on that offensive line? 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:07.880 Get out of the what are you doing? I want 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:08.519 to play? 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:11.520 I will say, Well, I'm a hit in the channel. 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:13.240 Welsh looks like comet. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:17.280 I look like that's a mini one. Yeah, apparently I do. Yeah, 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:20.720 I got like a sport looking here. This is horrific podcasting. 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.760 But that's why you want to be on the video. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.240 Welsh looks like a Joseph said, well, looks like a 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:28.160 villain and a murder mystery movie. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.880 Yes, you do, you absolutely do. Uh So we want 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:33.200 to just, you know, take a moment. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.840 Oh it guy, it's a good one to thank you. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:37.720 Definitely it. I diet somewhere wrong on my computer. We 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.360 want to thank everybody out there who has listened to 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.640 the show, whichly fourth weekends, the holiday weekend. We want 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.280 to thank you all for subscribing to the YouTube channel, 0:03:46.280 --> 0:03:48.440 supporting us and this show as much as you have, 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:51.000 because this is really fan appreciation. We said, we do 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:54.160 stupid things. When you support us, you continue to support us. 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.560 We continue to do stupid things. Uh. We are up 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.120 so much year over year in terms of listens and 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.640 watches on the YouTube channel. On Fantacy Pros MLB, they 0:04:03.640 --> 0:04:05.760 said we couldn't do it. This is the show that's 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.680 a little engine that could, and by golly, we're doing it. 0:04:08.720 --> 0:04:10.200 So I just want to take time to you know, 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.080 be positive and thank everybody who listens, who watches, who comments, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.400 who hits us up on social media, asks us questions, 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.120 who's out there in the YouTube streets and on the 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.160 podcast streets making this show work and making the baseball 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:23.520 work and Fantasy Pros because you know, there were people 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:26.120 who were skeptical that it could be a thing, but Welsh, 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:27.640 I think we've proved them wrong. 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:29.479 That they were. There were people that didn't want it 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:31.960 to happen, didn't think it would happen. And I'll tell 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:35.080 you what if no guarantees, if it ever does happen 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.359 one day that Fantasy Pros just cannot do without me, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.360 it'll be thanks to all of you and all. 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:43.800 Again Welsh also a good one too. 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.040 I love that I've become like a big character. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.720 Like with the shirt too. It's the shirt with the 0:04:48.800 --> 0:04:50.240 mustache and the hair at the whole thing. What do 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.120 you put in the glasses that really it caps the 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.520 look off? It really does? You know? 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:55.400 I will tell you looking at the mirror when I 0:04:55.440 --> 0:04:57.960 shaved it, I was like blush. But looking on video. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.760 On video looks good. It's not bad that I could 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:02.480 look for you, Paul. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.000 If I can be a single if I could be 0:05:04.000 --> 0:05:06.560 a single man because my wife would leave me, might 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:08.880 do it. I might do it just to creep everybody out. 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:11.480 Then you would be dating some woman who definitely hosts 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.400 a show on NPR. I'm pretty sure. Like that's that's 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:17.680 definitely the look there. All right, So again, thanks everybody. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.720 Fourteen thousand, amazing number. We were so thrilled in the 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:23.880 off season where we had ten. We were like, look 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.599 at ten, I can't believe we got to ten. Now 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.159 we're at fourteen hundred. The only thing left is fifteen 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:30.040 and then you get the week of wigs. I don't 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.440 know what it's gonna happen this year or next, but 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:33.800 I am a man of my word. All right, Let's 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.400 get to some other words that are now put out there. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:41.680 Home Run Derby participants, Julio Vlad, Pete, Alonzo, Mookie Bets, 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:44.599 Randy Roseraino, those are some good names, Welsh. Who else 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.000 do you expect to be on this list as we 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:48.440 approach the next few days. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:52.120 Yeah, we've got three. I still think that they've got 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:55.080 to surprise us with Ellie. I think Ellie has got 0:05:55.120 --> 0:05:56.839 to be the guy that they're going to put out there. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:05:58.080 I don't know. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:00.000 Do we want to take some guesses? We want to 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:01.919 like own, we want to have a draft real quick 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:03.479 of like the remaining let's have. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.880 A quick draft would be my number one. 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:07.840 You're getting the first pick. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.240 By the way, Brandon says, we look like villains from 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:17.159 Home Alone. Definitely. It's definitely Harry and uh Harry and Marv. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.920 Harry like you're the ring leader too, Like we've put 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.960 on your like your hat and your glasses. You're like, Marv, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.320 shut up where you're trying to stake the place out. 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:28.479 Hey, kids are dumb, They're scared. Come on, I'm like, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.520 I can't see this kid. Where does this go? Okay, yeah, 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:33.640 we have to have we have to have ulcinated. We 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:34.640 have to have Otani in it. 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.360 Like okay, so hold on, let so let's do a 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.400 draft real quick. We're gonna do it very very quick. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:39.720 Spots left is that we got? 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:43.839 We have three total spots for the isn't it? Isn't it? 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:44.479 Or is it ten? 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.680 I don't even remember anymore. It's got it. Well, there's 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.240 usually two brackets that they fill out right from the 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:51.560 National League in the American league. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.440 Isn't that usually? And I think it's isn't it eight? 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.400 I'm pretty sure it's eight people total. 0:06:55.760 --> 0:06:58.200 It's hard to keep tracking. Every single year they change 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.480 the rules of how this works and what's going on. 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.080 So let's just for fun, let's just shout out the 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.520 other things. Matt Olsen won for me. Go ahead, your 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:05.400 number two? Who you got? 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:10.280 Okay, so you said matt Olsen, Yeah, I'm gonna go. Well, 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.600 I'm gonna go with Ellie and then I'm gonna go 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:15.640 with Tatis. 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.680 That's a good one. That's a good one. I need 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.840 Otani in this. I mean he's got to go do it. 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.120 He's leading the league in home runs. If Aaron Judge 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:24.720 was leading the leagan the home runs, he would be there. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:28.120 So Otani's the other one for me, which means there's 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:32.040 one more left vacant, you know, big home run hitters 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.600 on the year. I'm trying to think of who would 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:36.080 be fun. I mean, can you get the teammates? Can 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.960 he get Soda in there too? I mean, soda has 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:39.080 been on fire. You could do that. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.840 And I'll go with Robert. So here's the point. We've 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.920 each got three for three spots left. Because everyone confirmed 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.040 it is to eight, so there's three spots left. We 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.720 each took three for those remaining spots, so I've got 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.400 Robert Tatis and Ellie. I think I'm getting two of 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:53.440 the three in the home Runner. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.559 Yeah, someone Lisa's where the home alone burglars order from wish. 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.720 That's that's also accurate comments. Keep him going, It's amazing. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.280 Speaking of home runs, show, Hotani now has thirty one. 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.400 I picked him for the weekend. Good choice. Oh God, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.440 tick up there, let's go. I'm not gonna make this 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.320 a whole love letter to Atani because we've done that 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.960 every day and Wonkee Penguin will get upset by the way. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:18.920 As as Kelly said, and Kelly will be joining the 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:20.800 show on Friday, I'll be out of the office for 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:23.560 the day, taking the kids to New York watching SmackDown 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.920 live in Madison Square Garden. We're gonna go do a 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.560 couple of things in New York, just kind of take 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.720 a day off. But Kelly's right, this show did change 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:33.840 your life. It was this podcast where Kelly was on 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.400 here as a peanut and cracker jack, and two years 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.360 later now she's a full time employee at Fantasy Pro 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.559 so how about them apples? Not so bad? How about 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.280 mister Tovar in Colorado fifteen game hit streak. We talked 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.400 about him a couple of weeks ago when he was 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:52.000 at nine. Now it's at fifteen. Things are going well. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.000 Still too many strikeouts on the year, but you'll love 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:55.000 to see Ezekiel Tovar. 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:56.880 You like him a lot from Yeah, and you like him. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.120 I like him more than I do. Yeah, But I mean, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:02.480 you know, hey, listen, he's getting it done. He's hit harder, 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.280 hits a little bit more. The barrel percentage is way down. 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.400 The counting stats are starting to get there. But he's 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.040 not my guy, but he's definitely yours with. Like also, 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.840 look at that Baseball Samon page barrel percentage, K percentage 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.280 x onoe. But it's really really down. 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:17.800 But well, I think he's a perfect trade candidate now, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.160 and I'm trying to trade him right now. You're going 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:21.719 to have him because I think I think this is 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.280 a great run. I think he had this run in him. 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:26.080 By the way, JP says, Walsh looks like a motorcycle cop. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:28.960 I've got the motorcycle cop glasses though, that's the thing. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:33.120 I have them somewhere there, bald Eric Astrono, you know, 0:09:34.720 --> 0:09:37.640 oh there you go, talk about good podcasting and good TV. Anyway, 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:38.760 while we almost. 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.920 Got so lucky, we almost got lucky because I usually 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.400 I have a bag that I usually keep my aviators in. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:44.559 What it would have been fire. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:46.880 I was gonna say, what do you have carrat top? 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:51.280 Is that what I'm working with? Redebt Meers. Another great performance, Redebtmers. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.240 How about this the guy that everybody soured on so quickly, Readebtmers. 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:58.080 Everybody was so upset about Redebt Meers. Oh he's a bus, 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.599 He's a bus. Meanwhile we're looking up now now he 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.680 raised at three seven, Okay, but the strikeouts nine and 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.400 this last one in six innings, Redetmors has turned a 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.640 big time corner. I would I mean, this is why 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:11.120 you have to have patients with some of these things, 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:13.000 when you believe in them. And I know even you 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:15.839 to a certain degree, Welsh was a little I would say, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.360 you know, frustrated with the early Redebtmor's returns. But the 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.439 month of June was a very good one for him 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:23.360 and for the angels who are now in this thing. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.280 Yeah, and I mean he's turned so much around. Everybody knows. 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.640 Like the slider VLO has been his biggest, biggest increase. 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.560 He threw at eighty six miles an hour last year, 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:34.840 it's up to almost ninety eighty nine point seven. The 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.160 whiff rate is through the roof on this thing. He's 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.400 also throwing it a lot more. Twenty four percent usage 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.440 last year, thirty six percent usage this year with a 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.360 thirty seven percent whiff rate, which is crazy. I mean, 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:49.320 the slider has been the saving grace across the board, 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:52.640 and batting average really kind of across most of these 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:56.560 double digit pitches is low. So you know, Redebtmers slider 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.560 has set everything up. K percentage is almost a percent 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.599 and expected dray under four. I just like everything that 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:05.440 read debt Mers is doing. He's just, you know, we 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.560 have to be comfortable that sometimes these guys are going 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.960 to have their like little ups and downs and how 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.320 long can we battle through it. 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:15.400 I would also say a couple of questions here in 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.800 the chad. This is a good one too, about mister Abbot, 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:19.280 who we're going to get to in a second. We're 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.200 gonna get to Abbot. Just hang on there. We will 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:23.160 talk about him. But let's talk about Justin Steel too. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:27.080 Era leader Justin Steele, who is in my preseason video 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.240 of top ten breakout candidates. I think he was actually 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:32.480 the first one I talked about. Look, he has been 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:37.080 excellent on a Cubs team that we described him earlier 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:39.800 in the preseason as the silk hat on the pig, 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:41.720 like just because you go sign a bunch of mediocre 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.040 guys as make you a good team. Yes, you'll be 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:45.800 more competitive. At the end of the day, it's not 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.440 going to really show up in the win total. But 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:50.880 Steele has held up his part of the bargain. There 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.079 was a little blip on the radar with the injury. 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.280 We all held our breath, but he has come back 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.040 and he has looked good and he has been one 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:00.160 of the lone bright spots I think on the Cubs. 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:03.480 A lot of weak contact too, averaging one of the 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:07.480 better in the league, eighty five average exit velocity five 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:11.120 miles per hour exit velocity, which is really solid. Also, 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.480 the hard hit you want to talk about the week contact, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:15.719 it's not just the ev it's a actual hard hit. 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.280 Numbers only thirty percent, which is top nine percent in 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.440 the league. Justin Steele and also looking at his his 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:26.360 zone chart, he does a pretty good job of covering 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:31.240 every quadrant. Fastball, the upper left corner slider, it is 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.480 carrying a little bit inside, but that's been effective, and 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:35.200 in the change up on the bottom. I mean he 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:37.720 has been pretty pretty solid across the board. 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.800 Bill's got a question for us too, Is Freddy Bralta 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.199 going to turn things around? I say no, I think 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.600 you know, the Freddy perlta risk was worth it to me. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.160 In the draft. He's giving us some decent strikeout numbers. 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:52.120 E alright, I want to say, is a four to seven? 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.679 He goes, we're looking at this morning it was pretty high. 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.079 But at this point, you know, the Milwaukee Brewers seemed 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.439 like an enigma to me. And I mean, I'm sure 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:02.079 there's a better run in there. But I think when 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:05.160 you also look at the injury history, I think it's 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:07.280 enough downside of injury history where it's not a player 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.160 I'm looking to buy low on. Let's put it that way. 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:13.199 What do you think I've never been a big guy. Yeah, never. 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.800 I mean the fastball velo has returned, but I mean overall, 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.720 the walks just keep got the walks and the strikeouts 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.600 going in the opposite direction nine point four walks per 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.520 nine with twenty six point one K percentage. That twenty 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.440 six is the lowest of his career with one of 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.800 the higher walk numbers also an expected era. Just you know, 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.120 selling any guys on expected stats right now, just still 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:37.400 over the force. I just don't think that team warrants enough. 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.679 I don't think he has I don't think he has 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.400 been good enough for any period of time that I'm 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.760 a buye on Freddy Perlta. I'm I'm out, I'm out 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:45.800 on Pralta. 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:50.200 Lee says with the mustache, Joey Pizapia transforms into Joey Plugs. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:51.760 You do one, all right? 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:53.480 You know what I'd like to see with your look 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:55.760 right now is like a good old like just like 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.360 a mohawk, like with this look, but like I think 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.240 I want it to be the same color, maybe like 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:01.880 a white gray. Do you do you ever? 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:03.680 Let your hand is great, It's just you know, I 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:05.440 had taken the beer down on Sunday because they had 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.960 the TV stuff and then you know it could be darker, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.400 it could be more, but you know, I mean, who knows. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.959 Maybe one for you know, on Wednesday after the holiday, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:15.560 I just let it keep growing like a hogan. 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.360 I want to see, like a hogan, a whole like 0:14:17.520 --> 0:14:18.040 I had the. 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.120 Whole way and it just didn't Oh my gosh, I 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.000 got it. You know that would be something. Let's talk 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.520 about Andrew Abbot, because he's been something twelve strikeouts. Got 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.800 to talk about this rookie lookie seven to two thirds 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:30.800 in a very shallow league at Fantasy Pros actually picked 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:32.520 him up as a streamer. Somehow he was still on 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:35.280 the wire. I couldn't believe he was. I started him yesterday. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.080 It was beautiful. He is now four to no. A 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.040 one point two one era since he's been called up 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.720 Welsh and we keep looking for, you know, reasons why 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.800 we think the Reds might be able to sustain. We love, 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.720 you know, some of the positive things they've done with 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.240 the youth culture here. And now Abbott has kind of 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.080 stepped up and become that guy at the top of 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:56.640 this rotation that I don't think anybody really saw coming, 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:56.960 did you. 0:14:57.720 --> 0:14:59.560 Well, yeah, I mean I was a pretty big Andrew 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:01.240 Arabbit guy at the beginning of the year. This is 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.600 the guy that well, I mean, I'm not going to 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:06.640 say any of that, but like, did I think Andravia 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.240 could be successful. Yes, And I talked about him early on. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:12.440 He was one of the guys that had the tacked ball. 0:15:12.560 --> 0:15:15.920 In Double A. He had a twenty K per nine, 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:19.400 twenty K per nine and I believe around a twenty 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.480 IVB with these pre tack ball. What that just means 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.440 is like it's pre gripped, you know, so they don't 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.480 have to like do all the stupid crap that dimago 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.160 Hermand does with his cheating and stuff. But then he 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:31.120 goes to Triple A and those numbers came down, but 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.160 he was still like fourteen K per nine. His IVB 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.040 came down to around sixteen, So people were worried, Hey, 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.320 what's gonna happen overall? Is he really going to be 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.120 the real deal? And he has been a twenty nine 0:15:43.160 --> 0:15:47.440 point four K percentage. His pitches haven't induced over a 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.480 two forty batting average I'm sorry, a two toho nine 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:54.560 batting average across the board expected batting average. The highest 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:57.560 is two thirty seven against the fastball. But we're talking 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.640 change up forty two percent with rate. You've got his 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.480 curveball with the thirty two percent whiff rate, He's not 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.760 going to be as good. But he throws strikes. He 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.120 induces these whiffs left and right, and he's been doing 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.000 this for quite a while in the minor leagues. It's 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.000 a really bad ballpark, and I would tell you, in 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:19.600 a redraft standpoint, I would look at trading him just 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.320 because that ballpark is not super super friendly and these numbers, 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.000 it will be impossible to keep these numbers. But he 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:28.320 could still be good, So I'm not just trading off, 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:32.000 but I would consider, like these insane numbers with a 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:35.440 rookie in great American ballpark, someone I would consider trading 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.160 for like a really good return. Otherwise, I do think 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:41.240 he can be like a top forty sp maybe like 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.360 right around there. He maybe something that's valuable. 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.640 If you're not getting something better than that in return, 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.360 then obviously he's a hold. Scott Bagman has entered the 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:52.400 Chad Are Good Pal. Dylan Ceese looks like he's on 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.040 the show today. I guess that's you, not me. I 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:55.240 don't think I look like Dylan. 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:58.000 Se Yeah, Dylan Ceese has got the mustache. I mean 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.000 the other obvious one would be sport. You know what 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.040 we need is we need spor here with musta. 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:04.879 Definitely needs a good screenshot. We'll get one of these, 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:06.960 we'll send it to Paul Sport, and we'll dedicate the 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:10.040 show to him. Today. Tanner Bibby, let's talk about him. 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:13.160 Another really good performance from him. Nine strikeouts and five 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:17.200 and two thirds innings, no runs. Bibby's been excellent. Kevin 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:20.880 Williams is up. I keep talking about it like I've 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.440 made investments in it. I'm gona talk about it. We 0:17:22.480 --> 0:17:24.920 get to the betting portion of the show today. Cleveland's 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.360 for real. I think Cleveland's gonna go past the Twins. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:30.520 I don't believe. I think as bad as the Cleveland 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:32.280 offense has been in the first half of the season, 0:17:32.920 --> 0:17:35.399 I see a pathway for them to be better with 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.760 all of the Nailers hitting, with Jose Ramirez being that 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:42.040 lynchpin guy, with Andre Simenez who had a good day 0:17:42.119 --> 0:17:45.200 yesterday starting to tick up a little bit. Whereas I 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:47.760 keep looking at Joey Gallo, I keep looking at Byron Bucks, 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:49.560